Why is Shooting a Stigma???

The story set up:

  Last weekend the family and I attend  my best friends sister's 23 birthday party. I have know her family  all of my life. Her brother and I have been shooting together for decades.  His sister has gone with us a few times.  For the most part I knew about 80%  of the party guest.  Out of the 80% of the people, maybe 5% are know shooters to me.

This is where the story starts:

A few of us guys are playing poker, smoking cigars,  enjoying beers and  Marker's Mark, while the kids are swimming, and the wives are talking. As our poker game goes on, and the Marker's Mark flows, then the smack talk starts to flows. During the smack talk , one of my buddies states, "I am a better shot then you!" To my best friend.  I know from experience that my best friend is a really good shot.  Those are fighting words to my best friend (not in the literal sense). Mainly because it was coming from possibly the worst shooter there.

Anyways, a female heard us talking about shooting and everything related to shooting.  She approached the poker table and started saying,

"I don't know why you guys like guns, they are dangerous and kill people. "

I reply, "Cars are dangerous and kill people too!"

Then she says,
 "ONLY crazy people would compare guns to cars"

Then the rest of the poker players chimed in. It got loud. Them the wives and the birthday girl got involved.

It got a little heated, but was entertaining.  The female babbled for about 15 minutes spitting out information with no facts.   She was countered by wives and the birthday girl with firearm knowledge and facts.

It was BEAUTIFUL!!!!

 To watch and listen to our wives defending their GUN GUYS husband's was AWESOME.  During this verbal fencing between women, us husband's were drinking our Maker's Mark and smoking our Gurkha cigars watching the magic.

Conclusion:

 The female now wants us to teach her how to shoot.  It was a good day.

VSC upcoming event!!!!

VSC is currently  putting together an shooting event.

"Take A Newbie To The Range Day"

we are planning this event in hopes of educating non-shooters, and turning them into shooters.

More detail to follow shortly.

Sorry, for the absence. I was on vacation

Now, back to work.

Summary of the Shooting Basics

         My 16 year old daughter looked at my blog and told me something was wrong with it. I asked her "What was wrong with it?" She told me "You forgot the basics!" I replied " I covered the shooting fundamentals." She said,  "Yes, but what about the basic safety rules?"  After looking at the blog really good, I noticed she was right.     I have posted  shooting fundamentals articles,  suggestions on choosing a firearm, suggestions on how many firearms you should own, but I have never gave you the basics in simple clean cut manner.

 So, here it goes

BASIC FIREARM SAFETY

1)  ALWAYS treat/handle the gun as if it is LOADED!!!

2)  DON'T point the gun at ANYTHING you are not     planning to shoot!!!

3)  DON'T put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to shoot!!!

4)  KNOW your target AND what is behind it!!!


If you follow these BASIC safety rules you will really enjoy shooting.


BASICS OF MARKSMANSHIP

1) Choose a comfortable stance

2)  Good Grip

3)  Sight Alignment

4)  Sight  Picture

5)  Breathing

6)  Trigger Control

7)  Follow Through

For more detailed information on each fundamental,  read the appropriate post for what you want to know.

Some might say there are more than 7 fundamentals, but
for the most part, these are the 7 primary one's.  Following these would put you on the right path.

The fundamentals, know matter how many there are,  won't do you any good, if you don't practice them!!!!

Accurate Usus Facit!!!